Just a reminder, if you haven't gotten your textbooks for fall semester yet, check AmaCoN for them! CoN member Hanyou just managed to get one of his books for the semester for forty-eight cents, used. Granted, that's not gonna happen for everyone, but you could get all your books much cheaper than at the campus bookstore, even if you have to pay for expedited shipping!

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

It's the holiday season! Well, technically, it's the holiday shopping season starting next Friday, at least here in the States. And, the holiday season is when AmaCoN makes almost 25% of its yearly money for the site, too. So, I'm just bumping this thread to remind you of a few things:

You can buy anything on AmaCoN. Not just Final Fantasy or Square Enix stuff!

Anyone can buy from AmaCoN! All they need is a link from CoN, so tell your friends and family, or even make an AmaCoN link to your own wishlist when people ask you what you want as gifts.

You can buy either from Amazon or third-party sellers.

You need to visit Amazon from an AmaCoN link of some sort (any link from CoN will do, they all work), and have an empty shopping cart when you get to Amazon to guarantee that CoN gets credit.

AmaCoN money pays for part of the roughly $1000 a year that it costs to run CoN's server, and, of course, some of the contests we run too.

Like Hanyou said, students with .edu email addresses on their account can get free 2-day shipping, with some restrictions.

Amazon's Black Friday week sales are pretty epic. I just noticed that you can get the first six Harry Potter films on Blu-ray for $40 or DVD for $24 total today - that's pretty impressive, and even with the utter lack of money I have right now I might have to pull the trigger.

Is there some way to visually confirm that I'm using AmaCoN while I'm shopping on Amazon, or is it just a hidden cookie thing or something?

If you're getting a link from CoN, it will contain "cavesofnarshe" somewhere in the URL (unless you're using a link from amzn.to - if that's the case, it should still work as long as you got it from a real CoN source, like a newspost).

Other than that, there's no way to track it other than asking me a day or two after your order to confirm. Frankly, Amazon doesn't WANT to make it easy, because they get more money if they're not paying us, so that's why the answer isn't exactly satisfactory or easy to use.

I know the semester has started for a lot of people, by the way, but everyone out there should remember that AmaCoN is a great place to find textbooks for this and every semester. Usually they're a lot cheaper than your University bookstore, too, which I know from experience, and they have used books the same way as your Uni store does. All you need is the book title and edition, or, even better, the ISBN.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

I did have a little bit of trouble since I was afraid of using the back button or starting a new amazon.com tab, but I had to tweak the stuff I was buying a few times (getting a newer edition once, sending to a different address another time), so I was a bit worried.

As Josh of course already knows, I AmaCoN'd a fair chunk of my textbooks this fall. Cause hey, if I've gonna drop a couple hundred $, I might as well do it in a way that's gonna put money into CoN's pocket

Just like everyone else, AmaCoN has a lot of deals coming up over the next couple weeks, and they're not just limited to Black Friday. They released today their American Black Friday Week deals for Music and DVD/Bluray, with more to come, I'm sure. When I see the gaming version, I'll make sure to get it into the Great Gaming Deals thread too.

The holiday shopping season is about to kick off. We haven't had a good month for AmaCoN so far this month, but with all the holiday gifts you no doubt have to buy for other folks (or other folks will be buying for you, because you totally deserve them), don't forget to use AmaCoN. It's one of the few things that pay the bills around here, so why not keep us in mind while you're buying the stuff you'll buy anyway?

There might be some issues with AmaCoN currently, so if you are a user of this option - and please use this option since it pays for the bills that otherwise come out of my pocket - please let me know the next time you make an AmaCoN purchase so I can verify that it is working correctly. Thanks!

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

As of Saturday at 8 am, I am the Subway up the block's newest sandwich artist, so when I get paid, I'll get a replacement GPU (I fried one yesterday) at AmaCoN. I wasn't aware that I could buy whatever I wanted through you guys, I thought it was just for CoN merch or something.

I try to ensure my semi-regular Amazon purchases are all AmaCoN. Most recent purchase will have registered within the last 10 days. Has it shown up on your records?

I do see a few things in my UK dashboard. For what it's worth, I'm mostly worried about American purchases and purchases made after March 25 or so - but I'm thrilled that you have kept the fires burning for the UK store.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Prime Day is next Tuesday. While it was pretty lousy last year, I have to assume that they've learned from their mistakes and will be doing more interesting stuff this year. I've already bought one thing from their Countdown to Prime week, so here's hoping. As a reminder, here's how you can start your AmaCoN purchases and help us pay for server costs:

Does AmaCoN work with Smile.Amazon.com or will the money only go to one place?

For what it's worth, I just made an order on Smile.Amazon.com.

I'm not really sure if it works with Smile. I do see an order that came through around the time you posted this, but not sure if it was yours or not. Looks like it might have been a book or e-book, just one item in the order?

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly